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Apple Easter Egg
AnamanFan writes "Many years ago an easter egg was uncovered on the MacOS System 7.1 CD included with the Quadra 660av and 840av machines. A 91mb MOV file shows the Cyclone/Tempest team celebrating with a nice pirate flag in the background. Don't have your old System 7.1 CD from your Quadra? It's now available online, or if you'd like to you're welcome to use the Torrent."
But not as good as cracking open a Mac 128K and finding the signatures of the design team in raised lettering on it.
Striking fear in the authors of godawful fanfiction, I am here, appearing in darkness, Tuxedo Jack!
Pirate flag + bit torrent = hidden message?
Tin foil hat goes ON
Life is not for the lazy.
You know the PSP launch is a failure when you need year old news to fill the Slashdot front page.
!! Notify the MPAA!
No, the MOV was the easter egg. It was a hidden file on a System CD.
Is it really right to submit a story to slashdot, just because you are getting slow speeds on a download?
My favorite was a real-time rendered flag with a lizard that was shown against the backdrop of the Apple campus. It came on the Powermac 8500 and OS 7.5, IIRC. It was meant to be a fun little demo of the machine's power. The mouse location controlled the angle and strength of the wind and the flag would flutter and move appropriately. If you were aggressive enough with changing the direction of the wind, the flag would break off the pole and flutter to the ground.
The earliest Mac easter egg that I remember was one that got the dog-cow to say Moof on the Page Setup dialogs circa early system 7 and a hidden break-out game that also dates from the early system 7 era.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
It's kind of cool seeing how even during some of the dark days under shitty management, creative people were doing cool things at Apple, and pretty much keeping it alive.
I do video on the Mac, and I've done it, off and on, since 1992. The AV models were a big step forward in terms of making the technology available at a cheap price. (I still have a Nubus TruVista+ card that I can't bear to part with because it cost so much back in the day. Probably worthless now.)
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Early 1990's....*shudders*
"Don't have your old System 7.1 CD from your Quadra? It's now available online, or if you'd like to you're welcome to use the Torrent." Cool, where is the System 7.1 CD then? :)
it WAS noticed before.
YEARS AGO..
when 7.1 was fresh.
you know, maybe someone thought that because such 'hidden' stuff in software is called easter eggs that it would be a proper thing to post during easter. well it's not.
slashdot: add a "DUST FROM THE ARCHIVES" section to put this kind of stuff under...
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
As nice as that is, that's not what the title of the link says.
Although Macintosh System 6.0.x, System 7.0.1, and System 7.5.3 are both available for download for free from Apple (in "convenient" floppy-disk-sized pieces for those systems that have no CD-drive), System 7.1 remains unavailable (except via eBay, of course) due to, I believe, some liscencing issues with PowerTalk, or something. It's vaguely rediculous that software that is useful only for computers that are basically free/garbage at this point should still be subject to that kind of restriction when the newer 7.5.3 isn't.
There's a high probability that issues like that in Apple's history is what leads their management to either aquire technologies outright (like NeXT) or develop an equivilant in-house (like Dashboard instead of Confabulator) instead of liscencing them (like Be wanted Apple to do with BeOS.)
It means that the only force to consult in the future when deciding what happens to a given bit of code is Apple itself. MUCH simpler.
What is the difference between a small revolutionary change and a large evolutionary change?
Now you know how mac users feel when we can't play WMV 9 files that use some new windows only codec.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
I noticed some people complaining about being unable to play the bittorrent original movie file. I suspect this is because of the age of the file. It was probably made using QT 1 or 2 and is in the ancient "Video" compression. Also, the file uses the classic mac resource identifiers and lacks a file extension. Anyone having trouble might try adding .MOV to the end of the Our Gang! file. The file DOES work on Macs though using QT.
If you can find the easter egg in Delphi 7, I'm the guy holding the giant plastic rat.
Hmm... I doubted this statement, but I was wrong:
In 1980, the 3.5 inch floppy drive and diskette was introduced by Sony.